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July 25, 2026, 10:20 AM

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Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later  —  The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat …
Harry Booth / Time:
Anthropic:
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max  —  Claude Opus 5 is available today.  It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.
Madison Mills / Axios:
Reuters:
Nvidia and SK Group unveil a $500B+ AI initiative that includes an SK Hynix partnership to secure next-gen memory supply for Nvidia and joint development of HBM  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) and South Korea's SK Group on Friday unveiled a more than $500 billion AI initiative spanning large-scale AI data centers …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Naver to help finance an AI data center in South Korea, and partners with SK Group to build more than 2 GW of AI data centers  —  Nvidia Corp. will invest $1 billion in Naver Corp. to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple has pitched Trump on using Chinese memory chips in its products sold outside the US; Micron warned such a plan could destroy the US chip industry  —  Two of the president's priorities—cutting prices for U.S. consumers and increasing domestic semiconductor output—come into conflict
Charlie Campbell / Time:
A profile of Hangzhou-based Unitree, which shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for 25%+ of the global market, as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO  —  Spectators typically leave a UFC fight with ringing ears and a sheepish resolve to get back to the gym.  Wang Xingxing went straight to his laboratory.
Ian King / Bloomberg:
SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions  —  AI developer Anthropic PBC has asked SK Hynix Inc., one of the world's biggest manufacturers of memory chips …
Akriti Sharma / Bloomberg:
As student protests spread across India, Narendra Modi turns to Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for self-recorded messages aimed at Gen Z  —  As student protests spread across India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned to Meta Platforms Inc.'s Instagram Reels …
AI Security Institute:
A joint preliminary evaluation by the UK's AISI and the US' CAISI finds Kimi K3 trails leading US frontier closed weight models on cyber capability  —  The UK Artificial Intelligence Security Institute (UK AISI) and the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) (UK AISI / CAISI) …
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Sources: Waymo is exploring exiting its Uber partnership, with their relationship souring amid an intense lobbying battle over the future of robotaxis  —  Partnership between two groups has soured amid intense lobbying battle over rollout of autonomous vehicles
Financial Times:
Analysis: US tech companies have cut ~140K jobs YTD, or more than 33% of announced US layoffs in 2026, with ~50K cuts from Amazon, Oracle, Meta, and Microsoft  —  Investment spree is reshaping Silicon Valley while wider US jobs market holds steady  —  US tech companies have shed nearly 140,000 jobs since …

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